【推荐2】The simplest way to say it is this: I believe in my mother. My ____ began when I was just a kid. I ____ becoming a doctor. My mother was a worker. Through her work, she observed that ____ people spent a lot more time reading than they ____ watching television. She announced that my brother and I

____watch two to three TV programs during the week. With our free time, we had to read two books each from the Detroit Public Library and then ____ her written book reports. She would mark them up with check marks and highlights. Years later we realized her marks were a____ . My mother was illiterate (文盲的).

When I entered high school I was an A-student, but not for long. I ____ the fashionable clothes. I wanted to ____ the guys. I went from being an A-student to a B-student to a C-student. One night my mother came home after ____ at one of her several jobs and I complained about not having enough Italian knit shirts. She said, “Okay, I’ll give you all the money I make this week scrubbing (擦洗) floors and cleaning bathrooms, and you can buy ____ food and pay the bills. With the money that is ____ , you can have all the Italian knit shirts you want.” I was very ____ with that plan, but once I had finished paying for all of the important things, there was ____ left. I realized that my mother was always dealing with money well to be able to ____ a roof over our heads and to put food on the table. I also realized that immediate satisfaction wasn’t going to get me anywhere. ____ required intellectual (智力的) preparation. I went back to my ____ and became an A-student again. Finally, I ____ my dream and I became a doctor. My story is really my mother’s story — a woman with ____ formal education who used her position as a parent to change the lives of many people around the globe. Now I believe that there is no job more ____ than parenting.

【推荐3】There was a rich foreign merchant who had 4 wives. He loved the 4th wife most and ____ her with best clothes and ____her to delicious food.

He also loved the 3rd wife very much. He’s very proud of her and always wanted to ____his 3rd wife to his friends.

He too, loved his 2nd wife. ____the merchant faced ____, he always turned to his 2nd wife and she would always help him out.

Now, the merchant’s first wife had made great ____to his business. However, the merchant did not love her and although she loved him deeply, he hardly took notice of her.

One day, the merchant fell ill. He knew that he was going to die ____. He told himself, “ Now I have 4 wives with me. ____when I die, I’ll be alone. How ____I’ll be!”

Thus, he asked the 4th wife, “ I ____you most. Now that I’m dying will you ____me and keep me company?” “No way!” replied the 4th wife and she walked away without another word.

The ____merchant then asked the 3rd wife, “ I have loved you so much for all my life. Will you follow me and keep me company?” “____!” replied the 3rd wife. “ Life is so good over here! I’m going to ____when you die!”

He then asked the 2nd wife, “ I ____turned to you for help. Now I need your help again. Will you follow me and keep me company?” “I’m sorry, I can’t ____you out this time!” replied the 2nd wife.

Then a ____pulled out, “ I’ll leave with you. I’ll follow you no matter ____you go.” Broken-hearted, the merchant said, “ I should have taken much better ____of you while I could have.”

Actually, we all have 4 wives in our life: our body, our possessions, our friends, and our ____. We should take good care of our soul all our life.

【推荐1】“Are you really going to eat another piece of pizza?” It was at my fourteenth birthday party that I received my first ________ related comment. After that day, comments like this ________ in my head longer than they should have. I was ________ picking flaws (缺点) in my figure in the mirror.

I decided that I couldn’t eat like this in order to be ________ . It started out as just a little extra ________ every day, like running, but it quickly turned into ________ meals and working out every night before bed. As I ________ the calories, the comments started to change. Perhaps my ________ comment was “You’re so skinny.”

Maybe others didn’t know it, but their comments were ________ my social construction of beauty. However, my condition slowly became worse. My caloric intake was less than that of a child and I no longer had the ________ to do the things I once enjoyed.

Everything changed when I got a call from the director at my dance studio. She ________ me that she had wanted to move me to the advanced level, ________ she noticed I was too skinny. I then realized I nearly ________ my role in The Nutcracker. I was determined that I wasn’t going to let society’s idea of beauty be the death of me.

I want to get better for real this time. Mirrors and scales (秤) have no ________ of who I am. Social constructions of beauty will always be ________ in the world that I live in but I’ve decided not to let them rule over me.

【推荐3】When I was growing up, there was a pizza shop right down the street from me, The pizza shop was _________ by a Chinese woman who opened the place around 11:00 a. m. and closed it around midnight every day. The food was good, and its _________ were a right size. As far as I knew, the menu never _________. The woman would take a（n） _________ and then return to the kitchen and make it while the customer stood _________ at the counter.

One day the woman _________ the pizza shop to a man. The man _________ on running the pizza shop with his wife. I was around fifteen and one day I went inside the pizza shop and began talking with the new owners. Within minutes of my starting the _________ , the man and his wife offered me a(n) _________ They’d printed many paper menus and they wanted me to hang them on the doors in the area.

I enjoyed the work as it was fun. As I did this with them one Sunday afternoon, they told me about how __________ the Chinese woman had been. They told me she used too expensive cheese. They were planning to stop __________ chicken because chicken was expensive and pizza was really __________ to make. They were __________ the business was going to be a cash cow for them.

As I listened to all this, I decided these people must be very smart. __________ , within several months, they were out of __________ completely, and the pizza place sat there vacant for over a year __________ it was turned into flooring store. The new owners thought only about how the business could __________ them, and how they could reduce __________ to fatten their own wallets. This is why they ended up __________ . After all, everyone loves people and businesses that are more __________ with serving others than themselves.

【推荐3】“Mother Serious. Start Immediately,” said the express telegram, throwing our entire house into chaos. My mother began crying, while my father began _____quickfire instructions to my two brothers and me to pack for the six-and-a-half-hour journey to our village in Rajoli.

At 12, 11 and 9 years old, we boys were too _____to sense the mood, and were excited at the _____holiday. After a long bus ride, we had to cross a river. But the river was full and there were no boats to _____us across.

Clearly we were in a _____unable to move forward or go back home. The only _____in the area was an old inspection bungalow (平房). Its doors were locked. My brothers and I remained _____our difficult situation we played in the garden until hunger and tiredness overtook us.

By dusk, our father was a(n) _____man, with no clue about our next move. Suddenly, we _____a lone man walking towards us. He was the bungalow _____. As Father explained our _____situation, he let us into the building and asked us if we had had anything to eat. The three of us shook our heads. He then _____to the riverbank with a towel, where he caught a couple of fish using it as a net, made a fire and started cleaning and cooking the _____.

It was a simple meal, but the watchman’s _____and selfless generosity made it a _____. I’ve never forgotten it in the 50-odd years.